The Books may not sound like a familiar name, but I’m fairly certain you’ve heard their music. “That Right Ain’t Shit” was used as the soundtrack in an advertisement for a Hummer vehicle, and “Tokyo” was used in a commercial to spread awareness about HIV. So they are fairly well known considering Nick Drake gain some notoriety the same way (a song was featured in a Volkswagen commercial). The Books are an experimental, aleatory, folk band from New York, who use sound bytes heavily in their music. The founders and consistent members are Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jon, who founded the band in 2000. “The Lemon of Pink” is the second album in their discography.

First off you guys should know “The Lemon of Pink” is a very short album, clocking in at roughly 37 minutes. That being the only downside, to me, because it leaves you wanting more of it’s weirdly enchanting, off key banjo and raspy voiced goddess, that sings with the passion of Janis Joplin, and that’s just the intro song. Many of you probably don’t know what aleatory music is, please allow me to explain, it means that the overall general path of the music is set but the details are left up to chance. This has been around as early as the 15th century, but didn’t gain popular precedent until the 1950’s.

The Books are a very interesting band that have kept me appeased throughout their discography. My only regret is I didn’t hear about them earlier, because then I may have gotten a chance to see them live. There are rumors that they will not be recording another album…let’s hope that not true.

• Website: http://www.thebooksmusic.com/
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